Seagate USB 2.0 Portable Hard Disk Drive Review. Page 5

We are going to introduce to you an excellent portable solution from Seagate with 100GB storage capacity, USB 2.0 interface support and great performance. Do you need extra 100MB at hand any time? Then check out our review and maybe you will make up your mind about this baby!

Performance in FC-Test

Now let’s take a look at the practical performance of our today’s hero. As usual, we used FC-Test tool to check the actual performance of our drives in real applications. The results should be regarded as credible, because of the highly efficient algorithms used in this test set we developed for HDD testing. The main idea of FC-Test is to measure the time the hard disk drives need to create (write), read and copy different file sets, which differ from one another by the type, size and number of files. Then we calculate the practical; performance of the drive basing on the time measurements.

As you remember from our previous HDD reviews, Windows and Programs patterns include a large number of smaller files, and the remaining three patterns – ISO, MP3 and Install – work with a limited number of larger files. For copy operations each drive is formatted into two 32GB equal partitions. The patterns are copied either within the same partition or from one partition to another.